Quality Improvement Resources

Introduction to QI

We have provided links to a number of useful sites that give a good introduction to Quality Improvement

Source	Title
Royal College of Surgeons of England	RCS and Quality Improvement
Royal College of Surgeons of England	Quality improvement in surgery
HQIP	e-Learning introduction to quality improvement for healthcare professionals
Hughes, RG	Tools and strategies for quality improvement and patient safety
Health Foundation	Quality improvement made simple
Health Foundation	Improvement collaboratives in healthcare
NICE	Putting NICE Guidance into practice
NHS Wales	1000 Lives Improvement

Tools for QI

A number of organisations provide tools for QI

Source	Title
NHS Improvement	Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) tools by stage of the patient pathway
NHS Improvement	Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) tools by type of task
Institute for Healthcare Improvement	Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit
HQIP	A guide to quality improvement methods
East London NHS Foundation Trust	Quality Improvement Resources

Process Mapping

Source	Title
BMJ – Trebble et al	Process mapping the patient journey: an introduction
NHS Improvement	Conventional Process Mapping
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement	Process mapping, analysis and redesign

Driver Diagrams

Source	Title
NHS Improvement	Driver Diagrams
East London NHS Foundation Trust	Driver Diagrams

Models for Improvement

Source	Title
NHS Improvement	PDSA cycles and the model for improvement
East London NHS Foundation Trust	The model for improvement
Institute for Healthcare Improvement	An introduction to the model for Improvement (video)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement	Testing Changes

QI Case Studies

Below is a list of QI case studies. Please contact us if you have any good examples of QI studies for vascular surgery and we can add to this list.

Source	Title
Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland	Delivering a National Quality Improvement Programme for Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
BJS Open	Effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative in reducing time to surgery for patients requiring emergency cholecystectomy
Implementation Science	Understanding the influences on successful quality improvement in emergency general surgery: learning from the RCS Chole-QuIC project
Implementation Science	Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial)
NHS Scotland	QI Case Studies
BMJ Open Quality	The utilisation of the MUST nutritional screening tool on vascular surgical wards
Northern Vascular Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ireland	Making surgical wards safer for patients with diabetes: reducing hypoglycaemia and insulin errors